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Historical Event on 5/2/1996

Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/1992Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh.
11/30/1909Ramesh Chandra died.
11/13/1935Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP.
9/10/1999Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.
1/15/1999Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (79), writer, poet, litterateur and associate of Rajaji, died in Chennai.
6/27/1906Establishment of `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad'.
11/16/1995The Pension scheme ordinance for 18 million Provident Fund subscribers takes effect with an initial corpus of Rs. 85.00 billion.
1/31/1960Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s.
7/18/1980Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
6/18/1918A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away.